Re: [IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

John, I heard exactly the same kind of music last week on 531 and had a
similar excitement wondering whether I had some exotic Indian or something,
and this was before 14:00 (I think, or was it before 15;00?) when they
rejoined the network feed....Walt


>
> The most fun of the morning was some WILD "Central Asian" music on 1503.
>  During the Asian season, JOUK, NHK1 Akita in northern Honshu just owns
> 1503. This music did not sound like normal NHK1 fare at all, it was louder
> than JOUK usually is, and it WAS NOT // TO NHK1 ON 531 AND 594!!!!!  A quick
> glance at PAL showed a VOR 500 kW transmitter at Dushambe, Tajikistan and I
> was much excited!  However, my house of cards came crashing down when the
> music finally ended and a Japanese lady closed out the program with a few
> judicious comments and went into the NHK 1400 Time Check and TOH routine!  I
> had checked parallels twice in the ten minutes or so... and there was no
> question but what JOUK was running a local program.  The reason that it
> sounded Central Asian is because it was probably early Japanese music. All
> of East, Central and South Asian early music was heavily influenced by
> Indian music which reached those areas as Buddhism spread out from Northern
> India between 500BC and 500AD. It is rare to hear that kind of music on NHK
> and the fact that it was a local program makes me wonder if they weren't
> covering a music festival or something.  Akita is the northern headquarters
> for NHK, so JOUK is a staffed station, with local news, production staff,
> etc. Geez, I wish it had been Dushanbe!!!
>
> Well its only four or five hours until dark!!!
>
> John Bryant
> Orcas Island, WA, USA
> Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
> Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops
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Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
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